Mrs. Sheridan [graphic]

Description

Title: Mrs. Sheridan [graphic]
Creator: Meyer, Henry Hoppner, 1783-1847, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, attributed name.
Hoppner, John, 1758-1810, artist.
Colburn, Henry, -1855, publisher.
Published / Created: 1817.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Henry Colburn, Conduit Street
Abstract: Half-length portrait of Esther Jane Sheridan, second wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with her son Charles on her back
Description: Title etched below image.
After painting by John Hoppner, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Accession Number: 65.203).
Probably an early state, before the incorrect artist's name "Sir Joshua Reynolds" was replaced by the correct name "J. Hoppner Esqr. R.A." For the later state with the correction, see impression at the National Library of Wales.
Later state was the frontispiece to v.2 of: Watkins, J. Memoirs of the public and private life of the Right Honorable R.B. Sheridan. London : Printed for H. Colburn, 1817.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 557 (leaf numbered '145' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree. Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.3 x 14 cm, on sheet 27 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English